HB3444eng 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

HB3444 Engrossed LRB100 08869 KTG 19012 b

AN ACT concerning public aid.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by changing Section 5-8 as follows:

(305 ILCS 5/5-8) (from Ch. 23, par. 5-8)

Sec. 5-8. Practitioners. In supplying medical assistance, the Illinois Department may provide for the legally authorized services of (i) persons licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987, as amended, except as hereafter in this Section stated, whether under a general or limited license, (ii) persons licensed under the Nurse Practice Act as advanced practice nurses, regardless of whether or not the persons have written collaborative agreements, (iii) persons licensed or registered under other laws of this State to provide dental, medical, pharmaceutical, optometric, podiatric, or nursing services, or other remedial care recognized under State law, and (iv) persons licensed under other laws of this State as a clinical social worker. The Department shall adopt rules, no later than 90 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 99th General Assembly, for the legally authorized services of persons licensed under other laws of this State as a clinical social worker. The Department shall provide for the legally authorized services of persons licensed under the Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act as clinical professional counselors. The Department may not provide for legally authorized services of any physician who has been convicted of having performed an abortion procedure in a wilful and wanton manner on a woman who was not pregnant at the time such abortion procedure was performed. The utilization of the services of persons engaged in the treatment or care of the sick, which persons are not required to be licensed or registered under the laws of this State, is not prohibited by this Section.

(Source: P.A. 99-173, eff. 7-29-15; 99-621, eff. 1-1-17.)